Special Issue for the 50th Anniversary of the Invention of Optical Fiber Communications(Feature Issue)

Editors:Weisheng Hu, Xiang Liu, Lian K. Chen

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the invention of the optical fiber communications. To celebrate this special occasion, the Chinese Optics Letters (COL) will publish a Special Issue for the 50th Anniversary of the Invention of Optical Fiber Communications in December 2016. The special issue will include invited papers that present the state-of-the-art results in various areas of optical fiber communications, to illustrate the great accomplishments made in this field through the collective efforts by optical communication researchers worldwide in the past half of a century.